Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TSP100 Printing Setup for Mac
- Original Message - On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 10:24:54 AM Thomas Merkl tme...@peasepubliclibrary.org wrote: We are setting up to go live on Evergreen 2.5.1 and am having problems printing to the Star Micronics TSP100 printer. After setting up the printer through a USB connection to an iMac the printed results are printing out, but are printing with a much smaller font and are only covering about half the width of the sheet of receipt paper. This is in comparison to the TSP100 printing through a USB connection to a Windows 7 workstation. Does anybody have a solution for this? I would check your receipt printer settings first. We have had people run into similar issues (on Windows) where they have Shrink to fit page width checked on the printer settings page. See: http://plum.pls-net.org/twiki/bin/view/Evergreen/EvergreenReceiptPrinterInstallation#For_Receipt_printers_ie_SP500_SP for our Windows instructions Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:14:04 PM Holly Brennan haderh...@ci.homer.ak.us wrote: Here’s how I configured the top of our patron-oriented receipts (items out, renewals, etc): [SNIP/] You set this up on one station, then copy the templates to all other computers at that branch. It’s a little work, but only has to be done once. And since you have to copy the customized templates to each workstation regardless, there’s not much difference in typing/coping a line of macros vs. typing the library name manually. Hope that helps. And thanks for the list, Lynn! Another option (which we use) is to include one or more of the following in your receipt template: %INCLUDE(header_text)%, %INCLUDE(notice_text)%, %INCLUDE(footer_text)%, %INCLUDE(alert_text)% Then for each library, set the header_text, notice_text, footer_text and alert_text settings in the library settings editor as needed. We have those includes in our default template on the server, that way one template works for 98% of the libraries. Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Verification of Patron Data
One other comment, it appears that one of the options when creating a action trigger is to create a patron penalty. I don't know what the options are there, but that might do the same as a SQL command and be easier to manage Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 11:23:43 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Verification of Patron Data If you have the ability to update the database I'd suggest writing a short sql script to be run on a daily basis that could add a patron alert/note when the criteria are met (every second year following the user create date). Regards, Justin Hopkins MOBIUS/Missouri Evergreen 573-200-6134
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3 day Courtesy Notice not being received
Meme, It can be done, the code is there in Evergreen back to at least version 2.2 to do this and we are doing this now for us and our 42 member libraries. It sounds like there is a problem with Bill's system where something perhaps isn't set correctly to make it work, but it can be done now on a correctly configured Evergreen system. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Meme Marlow marlo...@oplin.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:04:03 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3 day Courtesy Notice not being received Hi, Bill. This is something we have been trying to do. I was told yesterday that the courtesy notices were not a possiblity and that code has to be written to get this done. I am interested in having this done, so would you keep me in the loop on this. I would be interested in helping to support this upgrade. Thanks, Meme - Original Message - From: Bill Coffey bill.cof...@waynegov.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group (open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org) open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:45:57 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3 day Courtesy Notice not being received I have been receiving numerous complaints from patrons about not getting a 3 Day Courtesy Notice. They are getting the Hold notices, and at least the first late notice, I am still verifying the other late notices. I have checked and triple checked the template and it is working when I test it in the local admin area for notices. Has anyone had this problem and know of a way to fix it. Thanks Bill Coffey Wayne County Public Library System Administrator 1001 E. Ash St. Goldsboro NC, 27530 bill.cof...@waynegov.commailto:bill.cof...@waynegov.com www.wcpl.orghttp://www.wcpl.org/ Work ph: (919) 735-6249 Fax: (919) 735-1824
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What should be done during unexpected library closings?
On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2:08:28 PM Yamil Suarez ysua...@berklee.edu wrote: Thank you everyone for their reponses. Could someone share their workflow for back dating checked out items on the list, since I assume other would benefit. Is this something that is done en masse or individually? Our documentation is available online and it explains the process MUCH better than I could: http://plum.pls-net.org/twiki/bin/view/Evergreen/CheckInBackdate http://plum.pls-net.org/twiki/bin/view/Evergreen/CheckInItems22#Back_dated_Check_In On a side note, if you haven't run across it most of our Evergreen procedural documentation (such as it is) can be found at: http://plum.pls-net.org/twiki/bin/view/Evergreen/WebHome Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What should be done during unexpected library closings?
On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:21:05 PM chtrot...@ocrl.org wrote: I am not sure if the closed date can be entered the same day and fines not accrue. IIRC, in our install the fine generator runs at 23:59 to generate daily fines, so as long as the entry gets in, it should theoretically work. I haven't tried that though. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Wireless Barcode Scanners
On 17 April 2013 at 2:58PM Tatiana H Prokrym tanya.prok...@ncdcr.gov wrote: Does anyone have recommendations for wireless barcode scanners that work well with Evergreen. We are running v2.3.1. We are about to purchase quite a few. We have a library which is using wireless Honeywell 3800g (this appears to be the current version: https://www.honeywellaidc.com/en-US/Pages/Product.aspx?category=wireless-barcode-scannercat=HSMpid=3820_ ) Realistically, ANY scanner that acts like a keyboard, can scan your barcodes and can be programmed to do a carriage return after scanning the barcode will work just fine. Unlike some other ILS software, Evergreen is not picky. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260attachment: image001.pngattachment: image002.png
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding Evergreen and transit between libraries
On April 12, 2013 at 1:28:57 PM Deana Cunningham deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org wrote: Does anyone deal with a similar situation? Can anyone tell me if Evergreen can handle multiple transit times appropriately? In Evergreen, you scan the item to put it into In transit status at the sending library and then it gets scanned again at the destination library when it arrives to let the system know that it is no longer In Transit and the patron can be notified that their hold is available for pickup. Evergreen doesn't care if 3 minutes, 3 weeks or 3 years pass between when the item is put In Transit and when it comes back out. See http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.1/html/transititems.html for a little more info about how transits are handled. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL question
You want the action.circulation table. I would use the following query: SELECT COUNT(action.circulation.id) AS Circs FROM action.circulation WHERE DATE(xact_start) BETWEEN '2012-01-01' AND '2012-12-31' AND circ_lib = XXX /*Put your library ID in here, it can be found in actor.org_unit.id*/ AND phone_renewal IS FALSE /*Remove this if you want Phone renewals to be counted*/ AND desk_renewal IS FALSE /*Remove this if you want Circ Desk renewals to be counted*/ AND opac_renewal IS FALSE /*Remove this if you want OPAC renewals to be counted*/; Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Jesse Ephraim jephr...@roanoketexas.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:36:47 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL question I need to count (via SQL) the number of checkout transactions that fall with 1/1/2012 and 12/31/2012. Could someone point me at the right table/fields to look at checkout transactions for my library (we are in a consortium). Thanks! Jesse Ephraim Director, Roanoke Public Library 308 S. Walnut Roanoke, TX 76248 jephr...@roanoketexas.com 817-491-2691
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment
On April 5, 2013 at 12:06:38 PM Tim Spindler tjspind...@gmail.com wrote: We have another question, can you have separate paypal accounts for different libraries (so libraries use their own accounts). I'm not sure we want to do this but the question has come up. IIRC (not sitting in front of EG right now), the paypal settings are a standard setting so you could make them be library level or consortium level. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notifications Emails that Bounce are bounced back to the default email
On 28 Mar 2013 at 12:30:04 PM Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Rather than being bounced back to the originating branch email, messages that are un-deliverable are bouncing back to the default notifications email in an upgraded from 2.2.0 = 2.3.4 EG instance. Debian Squeeze, and Postgresql 9.1 There are two places this could be set (based on our 2.2 install): 1. Server Administration Organizational Units Main Email 2. Local Administration Notifications/Action Triggers Template. Look for From it should be followed with: [%- target.0.circ_lib.name %] [%- helpers.get_org_setting(target.0.circ_lib.id, 'org.bounced_emails') || lib.email || params.sender_email || default_sendr -%] If the main email address isn't setup for the branch, bounces will (by default) go back to the system default email address. If someone has been messing with the template, they might have removed the library email settign and just left the default_sender portion. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SMS setup for consortium--all at once?
On 7 March 2013 Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: However, if you have a different tpac template for the library that wants SMS, maybe you can hide the SMS options in the template for your other libraries? Off the top of my head, I'm thinking there are three places where you would need to hide SMS: the record page where you have the option to text the call number, the place hold page, and the myopac notification preferences page. TPAC does that automatically in our 2.2 install, but it would get confusing for patrons. For example, if Library B has SMS turned on, but Library A has it turned off, if a patron from Library B goes to Library A, does a search for items available at Library A, then tries to place a hold, it will not show the SMS options. On the other hand, if the patron logs in before searching, SMS shows up when placign the hold (IIRC). Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SMS setup for consortium--all at once?
On 7 March 2013 at 4:14:15 PM Alexey Vladimirovich Lazar alexey.la...@mnsu.edu wrote: Unless the SMS settings are tied to patron's home library/branch, perhaps, where if a user has SMS enabled at their home library, they would get an SMS option even if checking out material from a different library/branch that has SMS disabled for their own patrons. Our limited testing (turning it on for one library when we meant to turn it on for the whole system) showed that the SMS settings tie to EITHER your home library (if logged in) or your current search library (if not logged in). In our testing, if your home library has SMS turned on, you place a hold from there (requesting SMS notification) and the checkout library has SMS turned off, you will get a SMS notification. The SMS yes/no is set on the hold record, as such, if the SMS Hold Notification Action Trigger is turned on but SMS is completely off in settings, staff can edit the hold (from the staff client) to add the phone number/carrier and it WILL generate a hold notification (or at least it did in our test environment). Not sure how hairy this would be to actually implement or how useful having the option to configure this setting per-library/branch would be, in terms of number of libraries who would use the option. I would just turn it on for everyone. If a library doesn't want to use it, they don't have to fill it in and if the patrons want it, they can enter that at the time of placing a hold. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?
On Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 2:30:59 PM Buzzy Nielsen bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org wrote: I think it's a lot more accessible, and less hassle, for our patrons if we don't require them to go out and download a separate app to access something that can be made accessible without one. It also includes those (like myself) who use other mobile platforms (such as Windows Mobile) that aren't based on iOS or Android Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to remove previously used hostnames in EG client?
On Monday, November 5, 2012 11:32:20 AM Yamil Suarez ysua...@berklee.edu
wrote:
I have several EG 2.2 workstations that were registered with both our
production server and our test server hostnames. Automatically the EG
client remembers previously used server hostnames/IPs. In this case I
would like to remove the entry in the hostnames drop down menu for
our test server to avoid confusion in the future. Regretfully, if I
uninstall the EG client I and reinstall it, the entries remain the
same. Could someone provide me pointers on how to accomplish this?
On Windows 7 (and possibly in XP) if you go to
%APPDATA%\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client\Profiles\PROFILE_NAME\chrome there
should be a file named ws_info which has the following string for each
server:
SERVER_ADDRESS:{name:WORKSTATION_NAME,owning_lib:LIB_ID,lib_shortname:LIBRARY_SHORTNAME}}
with a comma between each entry.
Remove the entries that you don't want and they should disappear from the
dropdown list.
If you don't mind re-registering the workstations (or want to clear some random
data that wont go away), you could just delete the
%APPDATA%\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client\Profiles folder and the
%APPDATA%\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client\profiles.ini file
Aaron Z
Jr. Systems Administrator
Pioneer Library System
2557 State Rt. 21
Canandaigua, New York 14424
Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Courtesy report
On Monday, October 29, 2012 at 5:06:32 PM Yeisa Fredrickson yfredrick...@egf.mn wrote: I have been struggling with creating a recurring report for items due 2 days from now. We send emails, but not all of our patrons have an email address or may not regularly check it. Has anyone else created a report that produces similar results? So, you want a daily report that shows the titles (and possibly other info) of all items that will be due in 2 days along with the patron name, phone number and email address? Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Importing from ISBN
On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 1:18:10 PM Cassondra Vick cassondra.v...@kentonlibrary.org wrote: According to my research, ISBNs are unique. http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/major.asp In an ideal world, yes. In the real world? It happens, see: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/975488-isbn-duplication www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=2531583 and many others Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Statistics
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 9:33:37 AM Chauncey Montgomery montg...@oplin.org wrote: So, I am beginning to suspect that perhaps TLC counted things differently than Evergreen. I have never used or heard of TLC, but here are two things that I have noticed in our migration from Unicorn to Evergreen: 1. Do your libraries use in-house circulations to track items used for storytime and other such activities? If so, are you looking up those circulations in your report? They are stored separately from regular circulations and will need to be retrieved separately. 2. How about inter library loan, did the sending library get credit for that in TLC? If so, you may need to add something to the report to count that as by default Evergreen does not credit the sending library for that circulation in most reports. HTH Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] permissions and editing patron records
On Monday, August 20, 2012 at 1:51:57 PM Erik Stevens technol...@haineslibrary.org wrote: I feel like the fact that I put the Volunteer permission group as a child of the Patron permission group may have something to do with it. I do not want to put it under the Staff group because that parent already has more permissions than we would like volunteers to have. I'm going to try to re-creating the group under the parent of Users and see if that makes a difference. That will probably fix it. IIRC, in MOST (all?) cases the most restrictive permissions win out, so having a child group with more permissions than the parent group doesn't work. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Date Checked Out Macros
On Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 10:43:28 AM Geoff Brown gebr...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: Niagara College is trying to add the Date Checked Out to our overdue notices however we are unable to find the macros for this. I have searched the Evergreen documentation and there is no list for the notice macros. Would anyone happen to know the appropriate macros for Date Checked Out? We use: [% date.format(helpers.format_date(circ.due_date), '%Y-%m-%d') %] for our due date, so I would try [% date.format(helpers.format_date(circ.create_time), '%Y-%m-%d') %] as the create_time field in the action.circulation table is the checkout time. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standalone Pending Transactions
On August 1, 2012 at 11:54:11 AM Jennifer M Turner jennifer.tur...@mnsu.edu Thanks for the response! Unfortunately, the transactions were uploaded and the directions for exporting/importing transactions were - as far as I know - followed. Once they do the export, there is a popup that comes up and says: Your transactions have been exported to the file FILENAME . We strongly recommend that you now purge the transactions from this staff client. Would you like for us to do this ? I would guess that they clicked no instead of yes in that popup as we have had several libraries do that. If they re-export, click yes and have the same issue, the file can be manually deleted with the following steps: 1. Login as the user who is having the issue 2. Go to %AppData%\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client\Profiles\ 3. Open the profile folder (usually something like ja3rm3ja.DefaultUser) 4. Open the chrome folder 5. Find the pending_xacts file. 6. Delete it, rename it or whatever you prefer and that should eliminate the offline transactions warning. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Barcode scanners
On Monday, June 25, 2012 at 4:08:56 PM J. Sara Paulk jsarapaulk-w...@gmx.com wrote: thinking of moving to Evergreen - does anyone use Metrologic MS9525 voyager Bluetooth scanners? As long as they show up as a keyboard to Windows, they should work fine. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recommendations for PC reservation print management software needed
On Friday, June 1, 2012 3:40:16 PM Elizabeth Longwell blong...@eou.edu wrote: Evergreen libraries, One of our district libraries is looking at PC reservation/time management/print management software solutions. They have polled our local consortia but would like to find out what other Evergreen libraries are using and/or recommending. We are currently on Evergreen 2.1, soon to upgrade to 2.2. We have ~6 libraries using CASSIE (http://librarica.com/) with good results. Once caveat, it is picky about having the correct drivers for printers and it does not allow you to specify which driver to use when setting up print management on the public machines. As such, if you have Win 7 public machines, the computer that you use for print management needs to have Win 7 installed as well. Our libraries get a discount with them as we (the system, or me specifically) do the initial install and level 1 tech support to get them off of the ground. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers
Jessie Bunker-Maxwell je...@santacruzpl.org wrote: Has anyone out there replaced their cash registers with cash drawers and if so, is there an interface that allows the Evergreen Staff Client to work with the cash drawers? Scanning posts to this list and the Evergreen documentation, I am unable to determine if this interface even exists. Thanks for any info or personal experience. Some printers (such as the Star SP200, SP500 and TSP100 series machines) have an interface where you could plug a cash drawer into them and then send a control character (as part of a receipt template) to open the drawer when that receipt prints. I remember having such a conversation last year and I found some documentation from Star and a drawer OEM, but I have never used such a device. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers
Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: There is no defined interface, but there was some discussion [1] last year on a possible workaround, involving use of certain models of printers that can have cash drawers attached to them and using a control code in the circ receipt as a signal to open the drawer. I would be curious to know if anybody ever got that working. [1] http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/2011-June/thread.html#5035 Looks like you beat me to it, that is the thread I remembered. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] receipt problems
It sounds like this may be something with the printer. I would check the paper size, zoom settings and header/footer from the printer selection page. If you want to remove all traces of Evergreen from her computer, I use the attached file ( Remove Evergreen.bat.old ) which if renamed as a batch file, will remove all traces of Evergreen. Specifically, you want to delete %AppData%\OpenILS \open_ils_staff_client\ folder (which on my Win7 box translates to C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Roaming\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client) to erase the workstation registration. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:06:12 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] receipt problems Hi there, We're having a problem with one of our staff members' receipts and I could really use some help. Whenever this staff member logs in to one particular circ computer, the receipts are terrible. They cut short, run long, don't appear like anyone else's, even though we use the exact same settings. I've tried uninstalling the client but it still recognizes her as registered to the workstation and setting defaults doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to disassociate a staff member with a workstation so that everything starts from scratch? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca Remove Evergreen.bat.old Description: application/trash
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library installation
From my time working for a small hotel that used magnetic key cards and credit card readers, I can say that (generally speaking): A magcard reader is very much like a barcode reader . It reads the data from the card and puts it out as if it was typed into a keyboard. I would get a card and cardreader and see what data it puts into notepad (or something similar) when you swipe it. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Tim Spindler tspind...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:23:28 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library installation Hello, One of our member libraries is looking at a new campus card system. Please see her message below. She is wonderiing if any other Evergreen libraries in an academic library has run into any issues. Tim -- Forwarded message -- From: Beth, Amy ab...@stcc.edu Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM Subject: Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library installation To: Tim Spindler tspind...@cwmars.org , Noel, Kim kn...@stcc.edu Greetings. Hoping you can help. We are working with the following consultant/vendor http://www.allcampuscard.com/ to implement an All Campus Card system at our institution Springfield Technical Community College). The representative, Bob Huber, claims he never contacts the ILS vendors to determine compatibility. I am, of course, at a loss as to determining if our upcoming installation of Evergreen (we are a C/W Mars academic library in Massachusetts due to migrate on May 31st) will interface well with this magnetic strip one card platform or not. Our campus card would go into effect by Fall. No other C/W Mars libraries use a magnetic strip card on their sites-- but that doesn't indicate anything since the overwhelming libraries participating in this consortium are small public libraries and we are an outlier as an academic campus. I have already asked the staff at C/W Mars to vet this and they state it is beyond their scope for this project (which is focused on an ILS migration for a majority of public libraries) Please direct me to an Evergreen community member or developer or a client who could assist. I would be extremely grateful. All best, ab -- Amy Beth Dean of Library Services Springfield Technical Community College 1 Armory Sq. Springfield, MA 01105 Phone: 413 755-4531 http://library.stcc.edu/ email: ab...@stcc.edu -- Amy Beth Dean of Library Services Springfield Technical Community College 1 Armory Sq. Springfield, MA 01105 Phone: 413 755-4531 http://library.stcc.edu/ email: ab...@stcc.edu -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 C/W MARS, Inc. 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 Worcester , MA 01606 http://www.cwmars.org P Go Green - Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Report : Retrieve last patron who circulated item
Assuming that you have the rest setup (to find the items), add the circ transaction start date/time (ItemCirculationsCheckout Date/Time) as a Max aggregate filter to the list of filters and it should only return the info the the last checkout. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Geoff Brown gebr...@niagaracollege.ca To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 3:11:15 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Report : Retrieve last patron who circulated item Hi, Can anyone advise on creating a report which mimics the function of retrieving the last who circulated an item? Ideally, we would like to make use circ modifier as a filter and have the patron details, item title/call number display. I know this is asking a lot on a Friday ..but any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Geoff Brown Library Technician - eResources, NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College, Welland Campus 300 Woodlawn Road Welland, ON L3C 7L3 Tel. (905) 735-2211 Welland x 7731 Fax (905) 736-6021 gebr...@niagaracollege.ca www.niagaracollege.ca/library .
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] circ numbers after status change
Can you post the query? Hard to tell what you need to do without seeing the query you are working from. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Jesse Ephraim jephr...@roanoketexas.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 4:41:49 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] circ numbers after status change We just noticed that an item that was marked as “missing” (but later returned to the library) no longer reflects the past number of circulations. There is a SQL query I use to see individual circulation statistics for groups of items in our collection, and it is now returning a “0” for that one. Is there any way to retain those past statistics when an item’s status is changed to “missing?” Thanks! Jesse Ephraim Roanoke Public Library Roanoke, TX
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Report View error
Original Message - From: Araik Manukyan ar...@flib.sci.am However, when we try export ILC Users report, the Evergreen responses with this error text - DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: column fe21ca9ecd516f33ec379ecc11aa7051.groups does not exist LINE 2: fe21ca9ecd516f33ec379ecc11aa7051.groups AS Additional ... ^ at /openils/bin/clark-kent.pl line 217. --- That would indicate that you have a problem with your template, namely, it cannot find the column groups in the database table fe21ca9ecd516f33ec379ecc11aa7051. If you click on the Debugging Info link from the report page, there should be a Generated SQL section. In there where should be a FROM statement with a bunch of LEFT OUTER JOIN and other JOIN statments. They will each have a table name after the JOIN along with an AS. One of the text strings after the AS should match the one you posted above. For example, one of our reports has the following: FROMreporter.overdue_circs AS c8a790b472655be78d781328a75d9fb5 LEFT OUTER JOIN asset.copy AS 4dea4106377793e92f172d1c616f01d1 That should let you see which table and column it cannot find. If you have SQL access, you should be able to copy/paste the whole Generated SQL section and run that as a query to get the same data as the report will give you. HTH Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues?
What happens when they try to print a Windows test page on these printers, or from another program? What happens if you print to a virtual printer (like CutePDF) from Evergreen? Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Evette Atkin atk...@mcls.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:33:36 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues? The receipt printers are Epson TM-T88IV Model #M129H. The big printer in the office is a Zerox Phaser 7400. Evette M. Atkin Evergreen Coordinator Midwest Collaborative for Library Services 1407 Rensen St., Suite 1, Lansing, MI 48910-3657 Phone (800)530-9019 ext 152 Fax (517)492-3808 atk...@mcls.org www.mcls.org From: Aaron Zsembery azsemb...@pls-net.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Date: 11/02/2011 02:53 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues? Sent by: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org What is the printer make and model? What version of EG? We have Win7 x64 working with Star SP512 and SP212 printers under EG 1.6.2.4. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 From: Evette Atkin atk...@mcls.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 1:55:21 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues? Hi all. One of our libraries recently purchased new computers for their circulation department. When trying to print (from Evergreen) to a regular printer, nothing but garbage comes out. When they attempt to print to the receipt printer, there is a spooling error and the machine crashes and needs to be rebooted. The new machines are Window 7 64-bit. Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks! Evette M. Atkin Evergreen Coordinator Midwest Collaborative for Library Services 1407 Rensen St., Suite 1, Lansing, MI 48910-3657 Phone (800)530-9019 ext 152 Fax (517)492-3808 atk...@mcls.org www.mcls.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues?
What is the printer make and model? What version of EG? We have Win7 x64 working with Star SP512 and SP212 printers under EG 1.6.2.4. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Evette Atkin atk...@mcls.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 1:55:21 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues? Hi all. One of our libraries recently purchased new computers for their circulation department. When trying to print (from Evergreen) to a regular printer, nothing but garbage comes out. When they attempt to print to the receipt printer, there is a spooling error and the machine crashes and needs to be rebooted. The new machines are Window 7 64-bit. Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks! Evette M. Atkin Evergreen Coordinator Midwest Collaborative for Library Services 1407 Rensen St., Suite 1, Lansing, MI 48910-3657 Phone (800)530-9019 ext 152 Fax (517)492-3808 atk...@mcls.org www.mcls.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues?
From: jcl...@spendmanagementpartners.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 2:53:51 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues? Please remove me from this list. Thanks. I recommend that you visit the link you should have received in the list membership reminder that went out yesterday (http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/options/open-ils-general/jclift%40spendmanagementpartners.com) and click on the Unsubscribe button Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and book groups
Original Message - From: Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:23:01 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and book groups Alternatively, when I try and check an item out to a different patron, I get a Normal Checkin then Checkout button on the you can't do that, it is already checked out prompt. Dunno when the system started doing that. We have had that when checking in an item with an open checkout since we went live 1.6.0.8 (and I think it was there in our testing on 1.6.0.4) Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Cassie from Librarica
- Original Message - From: Heidi Florenzen hfloren...@hermiston.or.us To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:30:00 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Cassie from Librarica Has anyone successfully paired Cassie with Evergreen? (We're currently running Evergreen version 2.1) If so can you please share details? We've been without integration for 10 months. We are using CASSIE with 1.6.2.4. It worked with 1.6.0.x up to 1.6.0.8 and we have not had any issues after the initial setup. You must have a login on the server and tell CASSIE to use it to authenticate. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron checkout history
Where do you need to access this information? It is not really accessible dynamically through the staff client, but is readily available through SQL or the reporting interface. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 From: Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 1:29:24 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron checkout history Hello everyone! I am trying to figure out how to get a patron's checkout history. I did a search and found a thread from May 31, 2011 on the general listserv giving some info on what I need. In an email from Lisa Hill, there was a link to an attachment called checkouthistory.pdf. Unfortunately, that link no longer works. I also tried searching specifically for the pdf itself, but no luck. Would anyone know what I'm referring to and be willing to share? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bug Tracking and Enhancment Requests
On Friday, September 16, 2011 12:28:21 PM Galen Charlton wrote: [2] RT (http://bestpractical.com/rt/) I believe this is being used successfully by at least one other Evergreen consortium. We use RT here at PLS. I like it, it lets us setup permissions, add requestors to tickets, merge tickets, have automatic responses when something happens to a ticket, automatically BCC people when something happens to a ticket (ie: there are 4-5 people who get BCCed with any updates are made to a ticket in the Evergreen queue), mark tickets as dependent on other tickets, depended on by other tickets, mark tickets as parents or children of other tickets, etc. We have it setup with our mail system, so when you send an email, it will automatically open a ticket for the sender in the correct queue. Also (unlike some ticketing systems) when you reply via email from the ticket, the reply goes into the ticket. You can either reply to the requestor or you can add a comment (added to the ticket, but not sent to the requestor) via email. Downsides: The web UI on our version is clunky (but the libraries never use it, they just use email to interact with RT), and our antiquated version needs some tweaks to the config files from time to time. See: http://issues.bestpractical.com/Dashboards/1408/RT?user=guest;pass=guest for the interface of a current version. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Batch Delete Records
I am not sure what a TSN is (perhaps you meant TCN?), but if you have a list of barcodes, you can paste them into a text file, import it into Check Item Status (rather than scanning the items in) and manage the items from there. Otherwise, I don't think there is any way to batch select items, volumes, records etc without going directly into the database. It is possible to have EG delete the Call Number/Volume record when all copies are deleted and the Bib record when all Call Number/Volume records are deleted , but it doesnt sound like that is what you want to do. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Brian Greene bgre...@cgcc.cc.or.us To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:37:49 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Batch Delete Records Is there a way to batch delete records automatically from an Excel file with TSNs (in my case, provided by ebrary)? It seems tedious to delete them manually, but I haven't figured out how to create a search that would enable me to isolate all of them into a bucket for deletion. Thanks, Brian Greene, Library Director Columbia Gorge Community College The Dalles, Oregon 97058 (541) 506-6080 | www.cgcc.cc.or.us
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Batch Delete Records
So, there is only one copy per bib record? If that is the case, you could dump
the TCNs to a comma seperated list and run a query which returned the barcodes
of the attached copies for the list of TCNs
An example would be:
SELECT biblio.record_entry.tcn_value,
asset.copy.barcode
FROM biblio.record_entry
INNER JOIN asset.call_number ON (biblio.record_entry.id =
asset.call_number.record)
INNER JOIN asset.copy ON (asset.call_number.id = asset.copy.call_number)
WHERE biblio.record_entry.tcn_value IN ('abj00018615', 'u220115')
ORDER BY 1, 2 ASC
This will not work in the EG reporter unless you are willing to past each and
every TCN into a list
Aaron Z
Jr. Systems Administrator
Pioneer Library System
2557 State Rt. 21
Canandaigua, New York 14424
Phone: (585) 394-8260
- Original Message -
From: Brian Greene bgre...@cgcc.cc.or.us
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:20:38 PM
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Batch Delete Records
Thanks Aaron,
Yes, I meant TCN. What I'm trying to do is minimize the work involved
in keeping up with the titles periodically removed from our ebrary
subscription. Ebrary provides a list of removed titles that can
include more than a hundred at a time and deleting them manually is
time consuming. The file containing the titles isn't associated with
barcodes, so that option is out. Batch edit might provide us with a
way to delete our copies (our holdings data is in the 856 field)
then your thought about having EG delete the call number/volume
record and then the bib record may be a solution.
Thanks again,
Brian
Aaron Zsembery azsemb...@pls-net.org 8/24/2011 5:42 AM
I am not sure what a TSN is (perhaps you meant TCN?), but if you have
a list of barcodes, you can paste them into a text file, import it
into Check Item Status (rather than scanning the items in) and
manage the items from there.
Otherwise, I don't think there is any way to batch select items,
volumes, records etc without going directly into the database.
It is possible to have EG delete the Call Number/Volume record when
all copies are deleted and the Bib record when all Call
Number/Volume records are deleted , but it doesnt sound like that is
what you want to do.
Aaron Z
Jr. Systems Administrator
Pioneer Library System
2557 State Rt. 21
Canandaigua, New York 14424
Phone: (585) 394-8260
- Original Message -
From: Brian Greene bgre...@cgcc.cc.or.us
To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:37:49 PM
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Batch Delete Records
Is there a way to batch delete records automatically from an Excel
file with TSNs (in my case, provided by ebrary)? It seems tedious
to
delete them manually, but I haven't figured out how to create a
search that would enable me to isolate all of them into a bucket
for
deletion.
Thanks,
Brian Greene, Library Director
Columbia Gorge Community College
The Dalles, Oregon 97058
(541) 506-6080 | www.cgcc.cc.or.us
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Export patrons
What data are you looking to export? What criteria do you want to use? There are two ways to do something like this: 1. Using the Evergreen Reporter (see: http://wiki.mnpals.org/index.php/Evergreen:User_Guide#Reports or look in the Sitka user manual for the basics) 2. Connecting directly to the PostgreSQL server and running SQL commands Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Adam Marsy evergree...@rambler.ru To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:08:09 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Export patrons Export patrons Hi Evergreen users. I use the Evergreen 2.0 and i am interested how do i get Export patrons data? If someone can help me solve this question, please. Tanks.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200
It is possible to print to a USB connected SP200, but you have: 1. Share it on the network 2. Add the the shared printer as a networked printer 3. Redirect LPT1 to the networked printer from step 2 If you have the ability to just use parallel, I would just do that. It would be MUCH simpler that way. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:01:55 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Thank you Aaron. Your tip about DOS Mode and LPT1 made the difference. I can now print from Evergreen using the SP200 if I use a Parallel cable and set the Evergreen printer settings to DOS. Printing with the USB to Parallel cable does not work. Getting it to print at all is a big step forward. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Zsembery Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:57 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 I can send you the program I put together to share the printer and map it to LPT1 if you are interested. I have it as a VB project (made in Visual Basic 2010 Express), and a packaged executable. The basics can be found at: http://geekswithblogs.net/dtotzke/articles/26204.aspx Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:38:49 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Thank you for the information Aaron. We are using a USP to Parellel printer cable so we’ll keep trying. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Zsembery Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:00 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 There was a bug for the SP200s with Xulrunner 1.9 (which is used in EG 2.x). See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/491537 In 1.6.x, we have ONLY been able to use the SP200 series printers via parallel (The SP200 series printers do not handle HTML and EG will only send plaintext (DOS Mode) to LPT1). We had a library who was using USB to Parallel adapters. They ended up sharing their SP200s (to the network) and mapping them to LPT1 (from the same computer) with NET USE, but it was flaky and they ended up replacing their SP200 printers with SP512s. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:39:23 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Hello, Is anyone printing to a Star SP200 receipt printer using Evergreen 2.1? If you can print successfully to the SP200 from Evergreen can you tell me the driver you are using? We have tried the sp212 driver but have not had success. The printer uses a USB connection. Thanks. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200
I can send you the program I put together to share the printer and map it to LPT1 if you are interested. I have it as a VB project (made in Visual Basic 2010 Express), and a packaged executable. The basics can be found at: http://geekswithblogs.net/dtotzke/articles/26204.aspx Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:38:49 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Thank you for the information Aaron. We are using a USP to Parellel printer cable so we’ll keep trying. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Zsembery Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:00 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 There was a bug for the SP200s with Xulrunner 1.9 (which is used in EG 2.x). See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/491537 In 1.6.x, we have ONLY been able to use the SP200 series printers via parallel (The SP200 series printers do not handle HTML and EG will only send plaintext (DOS Mode) to LPT1). We had a library who was using USB to Parallel adapters. They ended up sharing their SP200s (to the network) and mapping them to LPT1 (from the same computer) with NET USE, but it was flaky and they ended up replacing their SP200 printers with SP512s. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:39:23 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Hello, Is anyone printing to a Star SP200 receipt printer using Evergreen 2.1? If you can print successfully to the SP200 from Evergreen can you tell me the driver you are using? We have tried the sp212 driver but have not had success. The printer uses a USB connection. Thanks. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200
There was a bug for the SP200s with Xulrunner 1.9 (which is used in EG 2.x). See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/491537 In 1.6.x, we have ONLY been able to use the SP200 series printers via parallel (The SP200 series printers do not handle HTML and EG will only send plaintext (DOS Mode) to LPT1). We had a library who was using USB to Parallel adapters. They ended up sharing their SP200s (to the network) and mapping them to LPT1 (from the same computer) with NET USE, but it was flaky and they ended up replacing their SP200 printers with SP512s. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:39:23 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Hello, Is anyone printing to a Star SP200 receipt printer using Evergreen 2.1? If you can print successfully to the SP200 from Evergreen can you tell me the driver you are using? We have tried the sp212 driver but have not had success. The printer uses a USB connection. Thanks. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cash Drawers: How to they work?
- Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org wrote: Apparently this functionality doesn't exist in Evergreen, but that seems odd. Some printers (such as the Star SP512) have a place to connect a cash drawer [1], then when you send a specific character (such as CONTROL G (ASCII 7)[2] to the printer, it is sent to the cash drawer and opens the cash drawer. In such a case, you could include this character in your bill/payment receipt templates and it would only open when you printed one of those receipts. Links: [1] http://www.fyrnicedesigns.com/POS_Pricing.htm#Metal_Cash_Drawer_-_CD4141 (Note: They say that they use a RS12 cable, but I think they mean an RJ12 cable) [2] http://www.mscashdrawer.com/KLICInstructions.pdf Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] implementing Summon with Evergreen
Deleted Records Export: Deleted records are still in the system, they just have the deleted flag in the Bib record set to true, so you can run reports on them if needed. Deleted Records Export: We have a report that runs every week which grabs all of the bib records deleted in the last week and returns the following information about them: Last edit date, Last editor, Create date, ISBN, OCLC number, Record ID, Title and Author. This allows us to update our holdings in OCLC and it works well. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: From: Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:21:02 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] implementing Summon with Evergreen Hi everyone, Niagara College is working on implementing Summon. We will need to export our added and deleted records on a regular basis. One of the questions that has come up is how Evergreen treats deleted records. The questions are: When you run an export of updated records, are deleted records included in the file? Do they have a flag in the MARC record to signal that the record has been deleted? III Millennium is an example of an ILS that has this capability. or Does the ILS output deleted records to a file on the server? Ex Libris Voyager is an example of an ILS that has this capability. or Does the ILS provide a report of MARC records by ID number? SirsiDynix Symphony is an example of an ILS that has this capability. I really have no idea how to go about answering these questions. Could anyone help me with this? Btw, any Evergreen libraries implementing Summon? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator Niagara College Libraries Welland Campus 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: [Fwd: Re: Printing to a USB receipt printer]
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:18 AM, JohnRoy McVicker jmcvi...@grpl.org wrote: Am I going about this the wrong way? Any tips of how to setup a USB receipt printer and use the Mozilla Print strategy? I am a little late to this discussion, do you have a model printer that you are planning on using? We are not yet live on Evergreen yet, but in my printer testing, I have tested the Star TSP100 (USB, Thermal) with the staff client versions 1.6.3, .4, .6 and .7. It seems to handle both Mozilla mode and DOS mode without any noticeable issues. I think that the Star SP512 (LPT, Dot Matrix) could also work (with a LPT to USB adapter or if there is a USB variant of it). In our testing, it has handled Mozilla print mode properly as well as DOS print mode. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
